Busy Bee - Earthborn

Hi Guys,

With the launch of my new commission Facebook Page I have been pretty snowed under.
Today I finished off my Earthborn Dire Troll.

He was quite fun to paint and I would like to share the colours that I used.

BODY

Gun Corps Brown = Base

Umbral Umber = Shadows

Umbral Umber + Thamar Black = Deepest Shadows

Gun Corps Brown + Menoth White Base = Highlights

CHEST/HANDS/FEET/KNEES

Gun Corps Brown = Base

+ Ryn Flesh (glaze)

Ryn Flesh + Morrow White = Highlight

HEAD

Gun Corps Brown = Base

+ Trollblood Base (Glaze)

Trollblood Base + Exile Blue = Shadows

Exile Blue + Black = Deepest Shadows

Trollblood Base + Frostbite = Hightlight

Frostbite = Highest Highlight

LIPS

Trollblood Base = Base

+ Ryn Flesh (glaze)

Ryn Flesh + Morrow White = Highlight

Umbral Umber + Exile Blue = Shadows

ROCKS

Bastion Grey = Base

Blood Stone = Splotch Randomly (for colour variation) 

Menoth White Base = Splotch Randomly (for colour variation)

Agrax Earthshade (GW Paint) = Wash

Menoth White Base = Dry Brush

Painting Update - March

Hey Guys,

So... It's been a while since my last post, but I feel I have a valid excuse. I went and got married!

YAY!

Now, back to the painting things. last month I finished up the Axer and Fell Caller. I got almost all the way through Rok but lost interest for some reason. I finished 1 champion, got half way through another, failed the @LostHemisphere painting challenge. I painted Cassius (but not his tree), and I have started to paint eThags, because someone has actually paid me for those minis and to finish painting them!

Photo Time: 

Fell Caller Hero

Trollblood Axer

And the work in progress:

Yes... Let's Lock in that Schedule!

Hi all!

I will be your Monday reprieve. Never mind that I am posting on a Tuesday right now!

I have done a lot of painting this month and would like to share it with you all. 

Please leave a comment if you see anything here you would like a recipe of or a tutorial on.

Lady Aiyanna and Holt

Min to Max Pyg Burrowers - 2 Points

eMorvana - Warcaster

Skaldi Bonehammer - 3 Points

Borka Kegslayer - Warcaster

Razor Boar - 2 Points

New Year - TROOOOOLLS!

I am back, better (and more enthused) than ever!

In the month of Jan I completed a min. unit of Pyg Burrowers (love those little guys) and a Night Troll!

Min. Pyg Burrowers

Min. Pyg Burrowers

Night Troll (front)

Night Troll (back)

I meant to submit one of my burrowers into the Lost Hemisphere, Paint the Target: January alas, I was too late (the guy back row on the left! He has a super special hat). Do not fear though I plan on submitting a piece in the February thread!

Thoughts on RawrMachine going forward: 

  - MOAR Painting tutorials

  - MOAR Battle reports (possibly videos!) 

  - MOAR Posts

  - MOAR Trolls!

Personal goals: 

  - I want to start training for the Aussie CanCon, not sure where to start... maybe timed turns :)

  - Painted Trollblood lists!

June Goals

June goals are as follows:

• Min unit (6) Trollblood Kriel Warriors (currently 1 finished not based, 2 are WIP)
• eMorvana (she's been WIP for 2 months now)
• Troll Dire Beast possibly Mulg
• Receive tonnes of basing foliage and proceed to base all finished models properly.
• Finish the terrain peice I started in my spare time in May " 'cos I felt like it" see the image below. Currently all that needs to be done is a bit more weathering, foliage maybe some vines... moss, lily pads, a flower perhaps and water effects.

I did cave recently and bought Horthol Long-rider in anticipation for purchasing longriders in the near future and a max unit of Pyg Bushwhackers.

On my I-Want-To-Buy-But-Am-Kind-Of-Trying-To-Wait-Until-I-Have-At-Least-50%-Of-My-Army-Painted-But-Will-Probably-Cave-Anyway-List is: 

Horgol (new journeyman warcaster for trollbloods who looks sexy)

Slag Troll (for Horgol)

Blitzer (because he rounds out my Dire Trolls) 

Dozer and Smigg (because they look sexy)

Sorcerer (for those times I have 1pt left over when building a list)

Trollsus (for when I take a low FURY warcaster) 

Battle Engine (just because I am badass like that)

Zeiju Out!

Beasts are Easy!

Finished painting eDooms and the Mauler this month. I surprised myself with how fast I finished the Mauler probably about a day... painting on and off. Still working on those tartans, thinking I will go with the one on the Kriel Warrior.

eDoomy - Trollblood Caster

Mauler Dire Troll

WIP Kriel Warrior (1/15)

Super Sexy Troll Janissa

Finished Janissa!

A few great things about painting her, then a few massive disasters.

So to start with the good:

1. I found a great guide on painting trolls,      
   http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/09/showcase-painting-award-winning-hunters.html#disqus_thread
   
2. I also started using a paint retarder for my mixes rather than a wet pallet. I found that with the wet pallet while it did keep my mixes moist for a few days, it watered them down and when I applied that paint to my mini it still dried quite quickly leaving a distinct line when I was two brush blending. The retarder doesn't keep my mixes wet for as long but it also doesn't dilute it as much as the wet pallet does and I can still add water to dilute the colour more if I wish. Also when applied to he mini the paint stays wet for much longer allowing me to push it around and get exactly the effect I want.
   
3. Minor conversion - Troll Hair!

And the bad:

1. I accidentally thumb glued most of the mini when I had finished painting her.
   
2. The pain keeps rolling, on trying to remove said thumb glue I managed to stick a tissue to her.
   
3. On trying to remove said tissue I broke her right ankle, snapped it clean off.
   
4. Now all those smooth blends look gluggy (at-least to me).

Janissa Stonetide - Trollbloods Solo - 3pts

Storm Troll... And in other news

I really had to hold back throwing him down a flight of stairs quite a few times during the course of painting this model. I don't know what it was I was just really uninspired the entire time I put brush to mini.

He came together in the end though and my procrastination basing meant I had to spend even less time looking at him!

Storm Troll (5pts)

I really like the water effects on the storm trolls base, inspiring me to do something with water effects on eMorvs base. With the goat on the rock I just envision a bubbling creek with water lapping up against it, maybe with some vegetation thrown in. Anyways here is how it is going.

eMorv WIP basing

I have also kind-of painted the hand that is to hold Doomy. I am not sure about the colours at the moment, thinking I will change the grey underneath and tone down the green of the roots.

I Balanced Doomy on it to show some perspective of size.

eDoomy WIP - Basing

Slogging on with my April to-do list. I might actually get what I posted done! (for once)

Basing Shenanigans

Hey all!

So with a new month comes a new list of miniatures I want to paint, and lets face it... Probably won't finish painting. So for April I want to:

• Finish the Storm Troll 
• Finish eMorv
• Start painting and possibly finish eDoomy 
• With a stretch goal of the Night Troll.

Last night I mucked around with the bases to try and do something interesting for eDoomy's base and the storm troll, because lets face it I am most definitely procrastinating finishing the Storm Troll again.

So for the Storm Troll's base the idea is to have a pillar of rocks similar to what I did with the Pyre Troll, except I want to make the base look wet as if it has been raining. On the top of this pillar of rocks (made of cork) where the storm troll will stand I made some scorch marks (with green stuff) so as to look like lightning has struck.

Storm Troll WIP Base

Since taking this photo I have filled in the bottom part with Glass Coat. This is my first time making water effects on a base and my first experience with this stuff is messy. It seems as if the stuff has gotten everywhere and it's not easy to wash off.

The other base I was working on, the one for eDoomy, was inspired by a thread I came across my Drakeoss on the Privateer Press Forums (click here to go to the thread). I basically want eDooms elevated up on some tree roots similar to what Drakeoss has done. As I was sculpting this I thought "wouldn't it be cool if instead of just random roots holding him up it was a hand made of roots!" and so I managed to sculpt this:

eDoomy WIP Base

Please keep in mind this is my first attempt at sculpting anything with a wire frame + green stuff. From my experience here though I can say that I made a mistake by putting all the green stuff on first. By doing this I got about halfway through shaping the twists and knots of the roots before it became incredibly hard to do more, as the green-stuff had started to dry/harden. 

End of March Frustration

Hey Everyone,

So my end of March finished minis looks even more dismal than April. I got a total of 1 mini finished! At least I met my 5 point quota?

All I can say after the amazing and inspiring Pyre Troll completion early in the month, the Storm Troll kind of just defeated me. I don't like him, I hate him. For me he has been terrible to paint and I am only half way. I did kind of break and start to paint eMorv from Circle Orboros just because I hated the Storm Troll so much then felt defeated again due to the amount of detail on that mini! So 2 half finished models to add to my April to-do list. Hopefully I can produce something I am happy with.

Any ways without further ado here is my completed Pyre Troll. So proud of him :)

Pyre Troll - Trollbloods

Painting Guide Heated Metal (Chain)

This is a painting guide for heated chains. I looked online for some guides for painting heated chains but found very little. So I have decided to share what I found and the quickest easiest way to paint a chain to look glowing hot.

The colours I use from the Citadel paint range are:

-  Mephiston Red

- Golden Yellow

- Abaddon Black

The colours I use from the P3 paint range are:

- Khador Red Highlight

- Morrow White

I also use a wet pallet and always add water to my paint, I never paint straight out of the pot. Due to this assume that when I get a vibrant colour I have built it up with multiple layers. The brush I am using is a Series 7 Finest Sable Winsor & Newton Size 2.

1. Unpainted chains

 2. Paint the chains Mephiston Red where you want the chain to look hot. Try to get a nice even coverage may require a few thin layers, you want that red to be really vibrant.

3. Paint the rest of the chains Abaddon Black. Where it meets the red to a 2:1 Water:Paint wash on a couple of the red links.

4.Make a gradient on the red, so paint in thin layers the Khador Red Highlight all the way down from the flame leaving a couple of links red. Again you want this to be really vibrant.

5. Do the same for the Golden Yellow, leaving 1 or two links orange. Also for this step you are not looking for a full coverage of the links, just the top bits (kind of like you are picking out detail)

6. 1:1 mixture of Morrow White and Golden Yellow to highlight the areas closest to the flame, Afterwards highlight with Morrow White, picking out very few links. You don't want to paint too much straight white so only pain the hottest parts of the chain.

7. Finish off the rest of the chain however you would paint normal chains and your done!

Work in Progress - Trollblood Pyre Troll

March Month of the Light Beast

So for March my goal is to get 2 light warbeasts done the Pyre Troll and the Night Troll (or Storm Troll depending on how I feel).

This is to make way for surprise purchase that fiancée is getting me. How exciting!

Stretch goals are to get all 3 done.

Also this month I have primed my Champions + Skaldi Bonehammer, Champion Hero Solo, pGrimm, Rok, Mountain King skin, Night Troll and Pyre Troll.

March WIP - Trollbloods

Above is a pic of all my lovely primed minis and my current progress on the Pyre Troll which I started last night. Can i just say I am having a super mega fun time getting those flames to not be green, seriously so fun! (*sarcasm*) I think I am up to my 10th coat of white, and still can see some of that blue coming through.

Menoth players... I do not envy you... at all.

As I am posting this I just realised I forgot to prime the Storm Troll! (insert profanity here).

Finally? Slowest painter ever!

Hi there guys,

So I have finished up my 5pts for the month of February, yes only 5pts and yes it did take me the entire month. In my defence I did finish Assassins Creed IV 100% completion as well, does that count for anything?

So here are my minis:

Min Unit Trollblood Stonescribes - 3pts
(1 Stonebearer + 3 Stonescribes)

Trollwhelp Solo 2pts
(4/5 Troll Whelps)

Trollwhelp Solo 2pts
(1/5 Troll Whelps)

So for March my goal is to get 2 light warbeasts done the Pyre Troll and the Night Troll. This is to make way for surprise purchase that Lokius is getting me. How exciting!

Mid Month Painting Update

Hey everyone,

So, I never did get those Stone Bearers + Scribes done in January like I said I would, nor did I get those pesky whelps done. I suppose both of those are my goals this month.

Also I have begun painting in NMM (non-metallic metallics). A while back I noticed that most of the miniatures I liked on coolminiornot.com were painted differently on the metal. After much stressing and agonising I have finally taken a leap of faith and below is a sneak peak of my finished models for this month.

Trollblood Stone Scribes WIP

(Belated) End of January Painting update

So, my computer decided to die at the end of January and I only just got it working with new parts today.
My goals for January were Eiryss, Dahlia & Skarrath, min unit of krielstone bearer & stone scribes and troll whelp solos.

While my painting was on track for the start of the month, birthday plans and vacation derailed my painting goals. I still got more than 5 points done though.

PEiryss (3pt)
Mercenary Solo

Dahlia (/w Skarrath is 9pt)
Minions Lesser 'Caster

Skarrath (/w Dahlia is 9pt)
Minions Warbeast

In addition I got new models this month, really excited to paint them! 

Max Unit of Champions with Skaldi Bonehammer to match. (also got a blister of krielstone scribes... not so excited) 

Mid Month Painting Update

Hey there!

So I am slowly slogging through painting my goal for this month. I did deviate slightly from my initial goal and painted up Dahlia and Skarath. This has kind of set me back a little but I am confident in my ability to get everything done on time :)

Here is a sneak preview of what I have done so far.

Stone Bearer almost done, 1 Stone scribe almost base coated.
Dahlia and Skarath & Eiryss are awaiting basing.

Cheers guys,

Zeiju

January - Goals + WIP

Hey Guys,

Looking on the Privateer Press forums I found a great thread where the community encourages painters to set goals with their minis. I have decided to join up for 2014. Basically I am to paint a minimum of 5 points worth of minis a month. I figure this is a great way to finally get my trolls painted.

http://privateerpressforums.com/showthread.php?186268-A-Tale-of-WMH-2014-January-WIP-Thread

So with all that here are my goals and WIPs for this month.

Eiryss1 - WIP
Mercenaries

Runestone Bearer and Stone Scribes - WIP
Trollbloods

Troll Whelps - WIP
Trollbloods

Cheers,
Zeiju